Human Brain is Able to Anticipate What Our Eyes Will See

Human Brain is Able to Anticipate What Our Eyes Will See

Human Brain is Able to Anticipate What Our Eyes Will See

Washington, Dec 5 (Prensa Latina) The human brain is able to anticipate the information it will see, confirms a study with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), published today by the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

The authors, a team of neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, demonstrated the mechanism by which the governing body can 'predict' what the eyes will see before seeing it live.

To carry out the study, the scientists analyzed what they called 'constant bidirectional dialogue' of the brain with a group of participants.

The illusion involves two stationary flashing squares that looked to the observer as one square moving between the two locations. During these flashes, the experts instructed the participants to move their eyes.

As part of the investigative methodology, they took images of the visual cortex, the largest part of the human brain, discovering that the prediction of motion was updated to a new spatial position along with the eye movement.

In this way, they explained, they detected a difference in processing of only 32 milliseconds, much faster than is typically thought possible with fMRI.

The scientists explained in their article that visual information is received through the eyes and is processed by the visual system in the brain.

At the same time, the brain also sends information to the visual system, this information is called 'feedback.'

It influences our perception using expectations based on our memories of similar events. Both pieces of information interact with one another to produce the visual scenes we perceive every day, Gracie Edwards, co-author of the work, explains.

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Human Brain is Able to Anticipate What Our Eyes Will See

Washington, Dec 5 (Prensa Latina) The human brain is able to anticipate the information it will see, confirms a study with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), published today by the Nature journal Scientific Reports.

The authors, a team of neuroscientists at the University of Glasgow, in the United Kingdom, demonstrated the mechanism by which the governing body can 'predict' what the eyes will see before seeing it live.

To carry out the study, the scientists analyzed what they called 'constant bidirectional dialogue' of the brain with a group of participants.

The illusion involves two stationary flashing squares that looked to the observer as one square moving between the two locations. During these flashes, the experts instructed the participants to move their eyes.

As part of the investigative methodology, they took images of the visual cortex, the largest part of the human brain, discovering that the prediction of motion was updated to a new spatial position along with the eye movement.

In this way, they explained, they detected a difference in processing of only 32 milliseconds, much faster than is typically thought possible with fMRI.

The scientists explained in their article that visual information is received through the eyes and is processed by the visual system in the brain.

At the same time, the brain also sends information to the visual system, this information is called 'feedback.'

It influences our perception using expectations based on our memories of similar events. Both pieces of information interact with one another to produce the visual scenes we perceive every day, Gracie Edwards, co-author of the work, explains.